Introduction

TikTok is one of the most popular social media apps of today and had a big impact on how we navigate our online life and also on music.

In this dashboard I will visualize how music changed as TikTok got more popular. My corpus contains top hits from 2016 until 2022 and a playlist containing the all-time biggest TikTok sounds. By analyzing these playlists I want to see if through the time, the popular music converges more to the TikTok sounds. If developments in music are found, we cannot necessarily contribute those to Tiktok, but I think it is safe to assume that the rise of Tiktok has played somewhat of a role.

A noteworthy example I would like to research is the song ’Running up the Hills” by Kate Bush, a song originally from the 1980’s, that was repopularized by the series Stranger Things and Tiktok, does that fit in with the overall trend?

For my datasets I have used the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of the years 2016 to 2022 for the popular songs. For the TikTok charts I have used the website https://tokboard.com and the datasets of the user Sveta151 on kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/sveta151).

Running up the Hills chromagram


Songs are getting shorter


Danceability seems to follow a trend in both the TikTok and the Billboard chart


Conclusion

Conclusion. TikTok has an effect on music.